rippler

Examples of ripple in a Sentence

Water rippled under the dock.

We could see the lion's muscles ripple.

A cool breeze rippled the water.

Recent Examples of ripple from the Web

Sun Yat-sen University in the city of Guangzhou had received complaints against the professor, Zhang Peng, at least as early as April, when the #MeToo movement was rippling into China, emboldening students to denounce molestation by professors.

To San Francisco cyclists, the blocks that ripple out from the downtown Caltrain station at Fourth and Townsend streets are a galling illustration of the city’s inability to smooth their path and protect them.

The project would be a $25 million investment into the three sites, and the effects will likely ripple out as area property owners are encouraged by the upgrades to improve their own lots, Kischer-Lepper said.

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The announcement generated ripples of anxiety in the Oroville community, where memories remain fresh of the near-disaster on the spillway that prompted the emergency evacuation of 188,000 downstream residents in February 2017.

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